01 DEEP COVER
02 ROUGH ROADS
03 BLOW
04 CLAP
05 REDUX
06 SLOPE
07 PARADE
08 SCENARIO
09 THE REAL SHIT
10 STAR
Dirt Crew aka Peter Gijselaers and Felix Eder have been Moodmusic favorites since their early days in 2004 when “Rock The House” emerged on the MBF label out of Cologne. Their electro influenced house productions soon found their way to Moodmusic creating numerous hits like “808 Lazerbeam” and “Domino”, and the all-time classic remix of “Soul Sounds” from label head Sasse.
Dwelling a few years in more dubbed out minimal sounds, Dirt Crew are back on the block with more of their original raw as fuck love of house music as we all like it.
“Blow” is showing the true roots of these pioneers of European electronic house music, with influences ranging from early Chicago warehouse traxx, sophisticated mid-90s NYC inspired house productions and pioneers of UK dub house from the likes of Warp and DIY.
“Deep Cover” is the perfect start, slowly evolving with a dubbed house feel and perfectly arranged vocal samples getting the biz done. Followed by “Rough Roads”, the theme stays the same, deep bass confiscating the groove, holding no hostages with a building arpeggiated synth line making the track as comfortable at home as well as in a hazy club at 5 am.
The title track “Blow” brings more dirt to the game, throwing old school samples and deep keys into the mix with stunning results. Keeping the pace mid-tempo the groove just keeps going on, building a perfect soundtrack for those special nights.
“Clap” is another sure shot DC production, layering synths and snippets of vocals into a frenzy of house bliss, ending in a FM synthhorn crescendo which could be from a Jovonn production from 1992. One of the highlights of the album is surely “Redux” – an old school stomper with a 2009 production to keep it fresh. Lending a touch from early Deep Dish this has the massively hypnotizing “hands in the air” factor in true Dirt Crew style. Already tested at the last Moodmusic Night at Panorama Bar, this was the highlight of the Sunday afternoon !
“Slope” is a darker affair with that well paced Berlin peak-hour frenzy without ever getting too dark or progressive, it’s a floor filler from the finest caliber.
“Parade” is the ode to those memories of deep house as we know it here at Moodmusic HQs, deep, pulsating bass and groove mixed with some tasteful keys and vocals fulfilling every deep house producers wet dream, I surely can see the guys wet themselves while doing this..
Going darker towards is the name of the game, taking “Scenario” into pitched down vocals and echoed percussion madness, keeping the groove in high alert till the keys drops and the dance floor just explodes, another DC classic for sure.
The guys show some amazing rawness in “The Real Shit” – a bouncy, almost techno production with distorted beats, true DC bleepiness and dubbed out vocals which has proven to be a demented dance floor bomb since we got our hands on this little secret weapon.
Ending the album we have maybe the finest piece of modern Dirt Crew sound, “Star” starts with mesmerizing keys and a murder bassline, evolving over minutes of modern house music at it’s best to a crazy horn break down before settling the score for good, there..s no stopping now for the Dirt Crew!
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The 36 year old producer Peter Gijselaers started his music career as bass player in the indie/dance outfit ‘Swains' in 1989,then soon got involved in house and techno production for the belgian ‘KK' label. Between '90 and '94 he released several records as ‘Amazone' on ‘Nova Zembla Records '. His DJ career started in '90 when he began spinning after shows of the ‘Swains' , in this period he already played in lots of clubs across Europe.
From '99 on the music production became more important and he released his first 12” on his own label ‘Casanova'. In 2001 the launch of the ‘Meuse muzique' label saw him as producer take another direction , with his electro/techno tracks he got recognition by Dj's like The hacker , Mick wills and Tiga who included the track ‘sacrifice' on his ‘Dj Kicks' compilation out on ‘!K7'. Later ‘Dr. lektroluv' also licensed the track ‘emolotion' from the latest ‘Meuse muzique' for his compilation. Also the collaboration with the German ‘Pocketgame' label resulted in two releases , a remix for ‘STR' and a compilation contribution.
In 2003 he started to produce together with ‘James flavour' (highgrade,brique rouge), who lives in Berlin where Break3000 frequently plays since 1999. This resulted in two releases for ‘Mood music', the label of 'Freestyle man' , also the Cologne based Trapez label released two 12”s as ‘Dirtcrew' in early 2004 on their sublabel ‘My best friend'. Break 3000 also did various remixes for Trapez and Traum , especially the ‘Akufen' remix got a lot of attention by various Dj's.
In 2005 his release on MBF called ‘FLASH’ stormed the charts across Europe within two weeks after its release. After this he released the ‘Lights’ Ep also on MBF Limited in 2006. Collaborations with Adam Kroll resulted in two releases, one for MBF and the other one on Dirt Crew’s own label Players Paradise. Peter also released a classic acid track on mood-Limited early 2006. In the near future he and James will expand their release shedule on their own labels DIRT CREW RECORDINGS and PLAYERS PARADISE and they will do various remixes on labels like GOMMA , 2020 VISION , FREERANGE , BREASTFED , SOMA and
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